Good News for Bola Tinubu as 18,000 PDP Members Abandon Party for APC

• The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in their thousands have abandoned the opposition party for the All Progressives Congress
• The defection of the PDP members has been described a good news for Bola Tinubu, the candidate of the APC in 2023 general election
• According to party leaders who vowed to defeat the PDP, the appeal to aggrieved members is yielding good result

In what can be described as good news to the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), about 18,000 members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo state have joined the party.

The defectors was led by the member of the House of Representatives representing Ibarapa Central/Ibarapa North Federal constituency, Muraina Ajibola, The Nation Newspaper reports.

The defectors were received by the APC chairman Isaac Omodewu, Oyo South Senatorial candidate Sarafadeen Alli and other party leaders, Tribune Newspaper added.

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Omodewu said in his reaction said:

“We are here to ensure that we unite our people. We have been appealing to these people to stay in their home that they have nothing to do outside the party when we are working hard to return to the Agodi Government House in 2023.

“For those contemplating going to other parties, there is no place like home. Let them stay in their house. As the state party chairman, I will continue to appeal to them to stay. If you see what is going in here today, you will see the need to unify our people. Our chances in the 2023 election are very bright and that is why our primaries were very tense.”

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Meanwhile, Osita Okechukwu has predicted that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will win 2023 general election by 60 per cent.

The director-general of the Voice of Nigeria (VON) and founding member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) disclosed this while chatting with newsmen at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja.

Okechukwu argued that aside from the growing popularity of the APC flag bearer, he said all political appointees of the present administration who are party members would equally ensure victory for Asiwaju Tinubu.

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In another report, Pastor Poju Oyemade, the founder of The Covenant Nation (formerly the Covenant Christian Center) has taken down a tweet that stirred controversy after it was interpreted by netizens as a bias political comment.

In a now-deleted tweet, Oyemade advised Nigerian youths not to waste their energy on poorly planned projects.

However, the tweet was misinterpreted by supporters of the Labour Party‘s presidential candidate, Peter Obi as an attempt to portray their candidate (Obi) as unprepared for the 2023 general election.

Source: Legit.ng